Fellow Travellers,

My bike was recently shipped to Germany by Stefan Knopf of KnopfTours who did a great job with all aspects; I highly recommend his container shipping service from Orlando. His shipping date to Heidelberg coincides with Daytona BikeWeek; so if you deliver your bike to Orlando, you get the extra bonus of "doing" Bikeweek .

My plan is to ride Eastern Europe this summer 2-up with my wife on my R11RT. This is a training ride in preparation for some of the real adventurous trips that other HU members are doing.

I've ridden through Mexico several times, including the Sierra Madre Accidentals, the (She) Devils's Backbone, the "Road of 1000 patches", etc so I'm hoping that I'm up to the challenges of the European roads and drivers.

However, I stumbled on an HU thread this A.M. that made me realize that my license plate from the Lone Star state (I'm actually from the Show Me state ) may be a problem.

My wife is Canadian, so today we went to the flag store here in Austin, Texas and bought several Canadian flags to attach to the gear for good luck.

I don't want to start an international incident here; just wondering if we smile, wave and be friendly whether we are apt to encounter any problems crusing through Eastern Europe, Turkey and Tunisia. Thanks in advance for any good, constructive advice. Happy (and safe) trails to everyone venturing out this summer on their iron steeds. Yippy yi ay!